Plotting Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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Plot the following latitude and longitude coordinates of earthquakes and volcanoes around the world on
the world map provided for you.
Make a blue star in the locations of the earthquakes.
Make red dots/triangles to represent the volcanoes.
After you have plotted the data, outline the plate boundaries on your map using the “Plate Boundaries
Map” as a refrence.
Answer questions 1-7.
Answer questions under Where will your home be in million years.
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
°Latitude °Longitude
°Latitude °Longitude
60N
150W
40N
120W
35S
70W
5S
110E
45N
120W
4S
77W
15N
61W
23N
88E
20N
105W
14S
121E
0
75W
7N
34E
40N
122W
44N
74W
40N
30E
30S
70W
30N
60E
45N
10E
55N
160E
13N
85W
3S
37E
23N
125E
40N
145E
35N
30E
10S
120E
35N
140E
41N
14E
46N
12E
5S
105E
28N
75E
15N
35E
61N
150W
30S
70W
47S
68W
Plotting Earthquakes and Volcanoes Questions
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Do the earthquakes or volcanoes appear to occur all over the earth's surface or only in isolated regions?
Is there a recognizable pattern to where earthquakes and volcanoes seem to occurion?
If such a pattern does exist, could you use it to determine where high risk earthquakes zones are located?
From your map, can you determine whether or not earthquakes have anything to do with the plate
boundaries? Volcanoes?
5. Do earthquakes and volcanoes often appear in the same locations? Support your answer with an example
from the map (e.g. the Etna volcano is located ...).
6. Can you find the ring of fire on your map?
7. Name several high risk zones that the President might want to know about.
Where will your home be in a million years?
1. Locate the station HILO in Hawaii on the map below:
2. Use the scaling arrow at the bottom of the left-side of Global Velocities map to determine the
speed at which station HILO is moving ("5 cm/yr --->"). See if you can answer these questions:
a. How fast is it moving in one year?
b. How far will it move in 10 years? 100 years? 1,000 years? 100,000 years? a million
years?
Don't forget to include the units (cm, m, km, etc.)
Year(s)
1 - ___________________
10 - ___________________
100 - ___________________
Years
1,000 100,000 1 million -
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3. Determine the plate on which station HILO is located. What plates are touching it?
4. Use the "direction arrow" for station HILO to determine the direction that that station will move
in. Assuming that station HILO remains moving in that direction, use the scale on your map to
determine where station HILO will be in for each of the time periods above.
Don't forget to include the units (cm, m, km, etc.)
Year(s)
1 - ___________________
10 - ___________________
100 - ___________________
Years
1,000 100,000 1 million -
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5. Do the same activity for station AUCK in Auckland, New Zealand.
Don't forget to include the units (cm, m, km, etc.)
Year(s)
1 - ___________________
10 - ___________________
100 - ___________________
6. See if you can answer these questions:
Years
1,000 100,000 1 million -
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a. How would the movement of either station affect the climate that plants and animals
located on the land mass would experience?
b. How might this change in climate affect the habitat on the land mass?
c. How might this habitat affect the animals?
d. What animals living in the region might become extinct and which might be able to
survive?